The company abandoned its IPO in London JSC Inprom, the second largest metal services company in Russia, refused to hold an IPO in London. The company's owners decided to place about 30% of the shares on the MICEX. The IPO will take place in June, during which it is planned to receive about $60 million.

The world's largest accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is closing its Misuzu subsidiary. PwC's subsidiary was involved in a financial scandal surrounding the brokerage company Nikko Cordial. This is the second scandal involving PwC subsidiaries in the past year. According to experts, large audit firms, due to the peculiarities of their structure, cannot influence the activities of foreign partners, but are forced to bear responsibility for their mistakes.

For the first time since the 1998 crisis rules of the game Last week, the Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to the law “On the circulation of bills of exchange in Ukraine,” allowing banks and the NBU to issue financial bills. These securities have not existed in Ukraine since 1998, when several pyramid schemes collapsed due to them during the Russian financial crisis. Now, according to deputies, the new instrument will allow the NBU to simplify the procedure for refinancing banks.

The Italian prime minister was returned to the political stage At the end of last week, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano did not accept the resignation of Prime Minister Prodi, who announced his resignation after the Senate did not approve the foreign policy of his cabinet. This means that the government crisis in Italy has been overcome. Romano Prodi managed to neutralize the radical left in his camp and gain new allies among the right.

Boris Gryzlov warned Sergei Mironov The head of United Russia, State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov said on Thursday that his party most likely will not support the candidacy of the Chairman of the Federation Council (SF), leader of the A Just Russia party Sergei Mironov if he is nominated for the post of representative of the Legislative Assembly (LA ) St. Petersburg for a new term (elections to the St. Petersburg parliament will be held on March 11).

elections At the congress of Russian chess players that ended in Moscow, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov was re-elected president of the Russian Chess Federation (RCF) for another four-year term. A new face in the leadership of the federation was another political heavyweight - the head of the expert department of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, Arkady Dvorkovich, who took the position of first vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation.

10K 7 min. ... Photo: ITAR-TASS Since ancient times, medicines were not only sold, but also prepared in pharmacies. Over the past half century, the situation has changed dramatically: pharmacies have turned into stores selling ready-made drugs. The few recipe and production departments operate, as a rule, at a loss and are not closed only due to legal requirements. Meanwhile, pharmacies produce many unique drugs that have no factory analogues.

The candidate for the post of President of Russia in the 2008 elections, who will be supported by Vladimir Putin , can count on the support of United Russia , Vladimir Pekhtin, a member of the party’s Supreme Council, said on February 26. “I would like to note that in any case, the successor whom the president himself names will be supported,” said Mr. Pekhtin, who is on a visit to Brazil.

Viktor Yanukovych is eyeing an increase in social payments forecast Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said on Friday that due to the increase in the minimum wage and the cost of living from April 1, the growth of inflation in 2007 will exceed the government forecast (7.5%). At the same time, in the event of high growth rates in GDP and industrial production, the prime minister promises to further increase wages and pensions.

310 7 min. ... Hannibal Rising Directed by P. Webber. Cast: G. Ulliel, L. Gong, H.-L. Tachowska, I. Dapkunaite, R. Ifans, K. McKidd, B. ben Ammar, C. Macignon, I. Marevich (France - UK - USA, 2007) "5 stars" / 17.45 "5 stars on Novokuznetskaya" / 17.30, 21.45 "Karo-film on Kurskaya" / 10.35, 16.05, 21.35 "October" / 10.35, 12.50, 15.10, 17.30, 19.50, 22.10, 0.30 "How to Get Married and Stay Single" (Prete-Moi ta Main) Directed by E. Lartigo. Cast: C. Ginsbourg, A. Chabat, B. Lafon, V.

The VSK insurance house paid insurance compensation in the amount of 7.3 million rubles. for canceling the Rolling Stones concert in St. Petersburg. This was reported on the website of the insurance house on February 26. The risk of canceling the concert was insured in the St. Petersburg branch of the VSK insurance house . Compensation was subject to actual property damage that the policyholder might have suffered as a result of the cancellation of the concert.

On Friday, February 23, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko turned 53 years old. Mr. Yushchenko celebrated his birthday twice. On Friday morning he received guests and gifts at the Presidential Secretariat (pictured). Knowing Viktor Yushchenko’s love for Ukrainian antiquities, BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko presented him with several embroidered paintings made by Ukrainian craftswomen, depicting national costumes of the 19th century.

Agrofirm "Fedyukovo" challenged the development of the village of Shcherbinka The SU-155 company may lose a site in the village of Shcherbinka in the south of Moscow, on which it planned to build more than 400 thousand square meters. m of housing. The developer received this land through a competition organized by the Moscow government, but as soon as he began preparing the site, it turned out that the Moscow region authorities consider Shcherbinka their territory.

739 4 min. ... Photo: AFP Russian avant-garde artists set 22 records at Sotheby's. At the first auction of this kind in London, works by 22 of 70 contemporary Russian artists were sold for record sums, with many names appearing in the catalog for the first time. The highest value among auction participants was the abstract work “Untitled” by Evgeny Chubarov (1992), which was previously estimated at £60 thousand and went for £288 thousand.

The co-owner of the Trust banking group is a former professional boxer. At the age of 19, he left sports, but uses his fighting qualities in business: Yurov compares the financial market to a boxing ring. After the 1998 crisis at Group Menatep, he managed to implement a successful banking project, and five years later he bought out Menatep SPb Bank and Trust Investment Bank (formerly Trust Investment Bank) from their disgraced owners.